Saturday, February 12, 2011

YES!!!!!

Guess what Bernie sent to me all the way from Greenville, South Carolina?

KINGS CAKE!!!TWO of them!!!!

The cake tastes precisely as a King Cake should too.A flaky yet moist pastry, with sweet spices and a bit of walnuts.The traditional yellow, purple and green sprinkles atop a sweet white icing.Bliss. Sheer bliss I tell you.

Kings Cake is only served between Epiphany and the Fat Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday.There is still plenty of time to purchase and indulge in a fine Kings Cake.Of course it helps to be living in, or visiting a southern state, where the bakeries bake up King Cakes for sharing for the entire MardiGras season.(Ellen...hint heavily to someone who is currently residing in the Carolinas to ship you one right away!)

Ohh.. I think I want a King's Cake... wonder if my deep south friend could ship me one? I'm thinking those Canadian border guards would just eat it themselves! Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow.. love your header!

I'm Jill. I'm a librarian and milliner now living in Salt Lake City with my husband of 37 years and my three shelter adopted cats. I'm 60, was born and expected I would spent my whole life in San Diego, save for two years in Corvallis Oregon in college.
Then beginning in 1997, right after our youngest graduated from high school my husband and I began "empty nesting" on the move. We lived one year in Almenden CA (San Jose area), two years in Dallas TX and eight years on Houston TX before moving Salt Lake City in the fall of 2008.
I love it here, but counting on Heaven being my ultimate hometown! I do hope we will one day be neighbors there?
I have two adult children; a daughter in San Diego and a son (and daughter-in-law) who also live in Salt Lake City; two beloved grandsons, and parents who were born and still live in San Diego, and who read my blog every day.